Hahaha. Very good! But I disagree. Number one should be "IT'S ELECTRIC." Tesla has been making this car for a buncha years now, and it's perfect for what it is. It is NOT a Honda or Toyota, thank goodness. They will give you knobs and levers like your grampa used to have fifty years ago, and if that's what you need, don't come looking for them here. Tesla, being electric, doesn't need a clutch or an oil and filter change. They don't need a muffler nor any of the exhaust system. They don't need a RADD e- atter, nor the gunk you put in one. Neither do they require a personal friend who does your mechanical work every few thousand miles, nor his shop. I've owned four Teslas and NEVER took them in for service in over 100,000 miles. How do gas cars compare with that? Tesla is not claiming they're extraordinary, but their acceleration definitely IS.
I don't know what hand controls you want, but you've got a hand operated steering wheel. What else are you missing? Lemme see... the rear-view mirror is made to be moved by hand. I guess I'm confused by what you call "gimmicks" as everything on my car is functional. My seat moves up and back and adjusts to my 6'4" frame, and the radio knobs work, though I don't use them. I guess they're just more gimmicks which we didn't have back in my day. There is a huge screen in the middle of the car that shows where I'm going and where superchargers are. Is that a gimmick? At least I don't need to unfold a huge paper map to check out my route. Is a paper map a gimmick?
I hear you say that they're "not very well put together". What do you drive? I have NO issues with how my S OR my 3 are put together. How can you care if there's a 1/32nd inch difference in panel gaps versus, who, Toyota? Who in the world cares? The wind doesn't blow into your face, does it? Nor does it whistle while you drive. The wheels don't fall off, nor does the headliner peel off and end up in your face. Not very well put together means nothing, other than YOU don't seem to like Tesla.
And you seem to be excited about supercharging. How about "charging at home"? Name one gas car that can fill up overnight in your garage. Besides being a major fire hazard, it won't happen. But worrying about other car companies using supercharging cannot matter. Tesla has said for YEARS that their goal was to move transportation to electric, and they were primarily working to prove to the other car companies that an electric car could be better than any gas car. By many metrics they have done this, and still many companies are unable to do it yet. Letting other cars use "our" system simply means there will be more electrics to choose from in the future. Maybe they'll put a "choke" on the dash that some folk feel they'll need.
Even battery prices are coming down, in large part because of Tesla's needing them. Methinks you complaineth too much.
. I dislike adaptive cruise as a general rule anyway and find the Tesla less relaxing to drive than my old dumb cruise equipped cars, having to cover the accelerator just in case it spots a ghost is not conducive to the relaxed driving style at all imo. Each to their own though
lane assist is switched off too and Joe mode enabled for me, can’t ever see me going FSD at all either tbh.
